Lauri Faggioni

In my own personal crusade to “post happy” I was reminded of Lauri Faggioni‘s work on Design*Sponge‘s guest blog today. Her work has this imaginative, naive quality about it that is always just close enough to creepy to have a little weight to it, but somehow remains happy and innocent… which is good, as this is supposed to be a happy post. Perhaps creepy is too strong a word; Awkward? Unnerving? Either way, precious is certainly a word I’d use.

“[Growing up] I had an obsession with tin toys, these German windups, and I wanted to learn how to make things move and have certain characteristics, so I thought I was going to have to move to the Black Forest and study watchmaking for 20 years before I could learn how to do it. But instead, in walks this amazing, crazy Frenchman teaching me animation, and it’s the exact same thing only another way I hadn’t thought of before.”